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Go Mayo Go! Iban the Man , Can!!
Now we have a genuine exotic underdog to root for.
I hope Mayo tears up a mtn stage and drops Lance by about two minutes like Pantani did to hundreds of thousands of absolutely screaming tifosi. I think Lance has done great things for the cancer sufferer communi5ty, but he shamed himself after that stage by calling Pantani " a little **** starter". I'm sure he cringes when he thinks of that now. Mayo prob can't win but it will be great if he can set a stage on fire to break the boredom of another perfectly planned, incredibly funded Postal How does that money work anyway? Does postal have like twice the budget for rider salaries? Maybe they should limit budgets like the limit bike weights. Have more teams instead. Lance, please stop winning this race and do the Giro so cycling can do something new! |
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"remove the polite word to reply" wrote in message om... Now we have a genuine exotic underdog to root for. I hope Mayo tears up a mtn stage and drops Lance by about two minutes like Pantani did to hundreds of thousands of absolutely screaming tifosi. Then Mayo will be 2 minutes behind instead of four. I think Lance has done great things for the cancer sufferer communi5ty, but he shamed himself after that stage by calling Pantani " a little **** starter". I'm sure he cringes when he thinks of that now. I doubt if he gives it another thought. Mayo prob can't win but it will be great if he can set a stage on fire to break the boredom of another perfectly planned, incredibly funded Postal The mediocre are always uncomfortable in the presence of those who excel. How does that money work anyway? Does postal have like twice the budget for rider salaries? Maybe they should limit budgets like the limit bike weights. Have more teams instead. Maybe we should just skip the TdF and make the Little 500 a pro event so everyone can ride their AMF Roadmaster bicycles. Lance, please stop winning this race and do the Giro so cycling can do something new! I've never noticed your name in this newsgroup before, so I guess you're new to the sport and don't realize that A SIXTH WIN IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE WOULD BE HISTORIC! Historic means new ... never been done before. Bob C. |
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I've never noticed your name in this newsgroup before, so I guess you're new to the sport and don't realize that A SIXTH WIN IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE WOULD BE HISTORIC! Historic means new ... never been done before. i agree, but i see the situation as sixth is already won. It's a little embarrassing with postal just destroying everyone in every disdcipline. I'm curious about budgets. Is postal's budget like way bigger than everyone else's, meaning the supporting riders are way better; meaning eki and GH destroy all monsters who might oppose LA while everyone else just can't compete on salary? |
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remove the polite word to reply wrote:
i agree, but i see the situation as sixth is already won. It's a little embarrassing with postal just destroying everyone in every disdcipline. That's absurd. The situation was about the same last year after the TTT, BTW. One of Lance's strengths has always been recovery - remarkable consistency from stage to stage, and even his bad days weren't that bad. Not so true in 2003. As riders age, recovery is one of the first things to go (at least, so Museeuw said). He might win, but it's also likely that when the end comes, it will come without much warning. I'm curious about budgets. Is postal's budget like way bigger than everyone else's, meaning the supporting riders are way better; meaning eki and GH destroy all monsters who might oppose LA while everyone else just can't compete on salary? No, it isn't. It's one of the higher budgets, but there is only about a factor of 2 between the smallest div 1 teams and the biggest. Many of the others pay more than one star - like Ullrich and Zabel. USPS concentrates on one race, presumably in budget as in training. An analysis of 2002 budgets: http://www.cycling4all.com/a_efft02.php Some 2004 budgets from http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/team/ BLB: 7.2M US$ CSC: 5.4 (really?? Barney Riis ought to write a Frugal Shopper column) EE: 7.2 FDJ: 6.6 IBB: 6.6 LS: 7.2 PHO: 9.6 QSD: 9.6 RAB: 10.8 TMO: 14.4 USP: 9.0 Robert Chung gets a prize if he can deduce the Euro/USD ratio that Velonews used, from these data alone. |
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Go Mayo Go! Iban the Man , Can!!
Benjamin Weiner wrote: remove the polite word to reply wrote: i agree, but i see the situation as sixth is already won. It's a little embarrassing with postal just destroying everyone in every disdcipline. That's absurd. The situation was about the same last year after the TTT, BTW. Regarding the TTT, if you disregard the Gewiss effort in 1995 (for obvious reasons), the USPS in 2004 was the 2nd fastest, and the fastest TTT over 50km in Tour history. In fact, the T-Mobile effort this year was on the same par as the USPS effort LAST year (52.77kph) |
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Go Mayo Go! Iban the Man , Can!!
On 9 Jul 2004 01:53:04 -0700, Benjamin Weiner wrote:
BLB: 7.2M US$ CSC: 5.4 (really?? Barney Riis ought to write a Frugal Shopper column) EE: 7.2 FDJ: 6.6 IBB: 6.6 LS: 7.2 PHO: 9.6 QSD: 9.6 RAB: 10.8 TMO: 14.4 USP: 9.0 Robert Chung gets a prize if he can deduce the Euro/USD ratio that Velonews used, from these data alone. 0.9 EUR/USD. Of course, this ratio should realy be expressed as 10/9 (or 1.11) USD/EUR. |
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Do you have a stuttering problem, or some kind of typing tic?
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(remove the polite word to reply) wrote in message . com...
. J. Papai)wrote in message . com... (remove the polite word to reply) wrote in message . com... Now we have a genuine exotic underdog to root for. I hope Mayo tears up a mtn stage and drops Lance SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM .... SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM Do you have a stuttering problem, or some kind of typing tic? Or is this just sort of a dimwit's attempt at shouting me down? You wrote this poorly written and poorly type crap: "I think Lance has done great things for the cancer sufferer communi5ty, but he shamed himself after that stage by calling Pantani " a little **** starter". I'm sure he cringes when he thinks of that now. Mayo prob can't win but it will be great if he can set a stage on fire to break the boredom of another perfectly planned, incredibly funded Postal How does that money work anyway? Does postal have like twice the budget for rider salaries? Maybe they should limit budgets like the limit bike weights. Have more teams instead. Lance, please stop winning this race and do the Giro so cycling can do something new!" "I think Lance has done great things for the cancer sufferer communi5ty, but he shamed himself after that stage by calling Pantani " a little **** starter". I'm sure he cringes when he thinks of that now. Mayo prob can't win but it will be great if he can set a stage on fire to break the boredom of another perfectly planned, incredibly funded Postal How does that money work anyway? Does postal have like twice the budget for rider salaries? Maybe they should limit budgets like the limit bike weights. Have more teams instead. Lance, please stop winning this race and do the Giro so cycling can do something new!" "I think Lance has done great things for the cancer sufferer communi5ty, but he shamed himself after that stage by calling Pantani " a little **** starter". I'm sure he cringes when he thinks of that now. Mayo prob can't win but it will be great if he can set a stage on fire to break the boredom of another perfectly planned, incredibly funded Postal How does that money work anyway? Does postal have like twice the budget for rider salaries? Maybe they should limit budgets like the limit bike weights. Have more teams instead. Lance, please stop winning this race and do the Giro so cycling can do something new!" WHAT do you have to say for yourself Mr. Anonymous? -Ken |
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